Whatever the justification, it is not right. The practice is illegal and has to stop. It is deceitful to use terrorism as reasons to spy on every citizen by collecting their data to use at a later date and putting fear into Citizens and Western govts involved in this practice should practice what they preach to other govts of countries that they accuse of violating the rights and privacy of their Citizens. It's called 'remove the mote in your eyes first before removing that in the eyes of others i.e. Do as I do not as I say! We should live our values and not undermine them.

10:56 pm December 18, 2013

GTH wrote:

Is there anything that the IDIOT in control touches that he doesn't screw up, this is turning into a comedy show,
we'll call it obama in wonder wonder land !

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